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Nov 05 2009
CIA Operatives Convicted for Role in Extraordinary Rendition
By MWC News   

In a landmark case, twenty-three Americans, mostly CIA operatives, have been convicted in Italy for kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. They were all tried in absentia after the United States refused to hand them over. The convictions turn them into international fugitives who risk arrest abroad. The case marks the first time any American has been convicted for taking part in a so-called “extraordinary rendition.”

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Tags:  Armando Spataro Scott Horton CIA Operatives Extraordinary Rendition
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House Resolution Designates Venezuela a State Sponsor of Terrorism
By Stephen Lendman   

At a time of growing US poverty, hunger, homelessness, and despair, imperial wars without end, and the Obama administration even worse than its predecessor, Venezuela:

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House Considers Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report
By MWC News   

The House is expected to overwhelmingly vote today to condemn a UN inquiry that found Israel committed scores of war crimes in its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip. Headed by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, the inquiry also accused Hamas of war crimes and said both sides should investigate the allegations or face international prosecution.

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Tags:  Jeff Halper Micha Kurz US House Goldstone Report
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Obama Resuming Renditions
By Sherwood Ross   

Even though Barack Obama, the candidate, pledged to end “the practice of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries,” his FBI has been rendering kidnap victims to the U.S. The practice is still kidnapping, however; and it’s still illegal.

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Tags:  Sherwood Ross Renditions Raymond Azar ACLU
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Drug-War Assassinations
By MWC News   

The U.S. government has now extended its assassination program to the drug war. According to the New York Times, the Pentagon now has an assassination list for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan.

No arrests. No hearings. No attorneys. No judges. No trials. Just kill them.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Drug-War Assassinations Pentagon
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